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‘Soft-shelled varieties, especially that called ‘Ma-Yuen’, are preferred for eating, for example in macrobiotic diets.’

‘Maybe it's her macrobiotic diet, or the pressures of being a young mother, or the fact that she's married to a man who writes nothing but dreary, whiny songs all the time.’

‘Umm, there is nothing on the menu that fits a macrobiotic diet.’

‘If you've been scared off Atkins, confused by the latest macrobiotic diet or are fed up with protein shakes, don't despair.’

‘She practices yoga, keeps a macrobiotic diet, and is a devoted student of Kabbalah, a mystical form of Judaism, which predates organized religion.’

‘I went on a very strict macrobiotic diet and I didn't go out partying.’

‘What's the number one treat in the macrobiotic diet?’

‘I've followed a healthy macrobiotic diet for 10 years now, which means that I try to stick to fresh organic food and avoid dairy and meat.’

‘I wanted my body to devote itself to getting better, not digesting unhealthy food, so I worked out a diet based on macrobiotic and Ayurvedic principles and ate only organically grown food.’

‘Her two-hour sunrise yoga sessions and macrobiotic diet (though hers appears to include wine and cheese) have been held up as instances of fussy obsessiveness.’

‘If a macrobiotic diet is healthy it is by accident, since foods are selected not for their physical or nutritional qualities, but for their metaphysical properties.’

plural noun

macrobiotics

[treated as singular]The use or theory of a macrobiotic diet.

‘My family moved through fads and phases very quickly, everything from EST training to crystal healing, macrobiotics and cooperative living.’

‘Ooh, and she gave up macrobiotics and started eating biscuits for her little biscuit!’

‘In macrobiotics some food is beneficial at certain times.’

‘It explains and questions such disparate subjects as Congolese dinosaurs, Kabbalah and macrobiotics.’

‘From macrobiotics to South Beach, celebrities can't seem to get enough of them.’

‘He did not think about being a cook until sometime in his late 20s, when he started investigating macrobiotics.’

‘He enrolled on a course in macrobiotics in London - and four years later, in 1993, left with a certificate from the London School of Macrobiotics and membership of the Macrobiotics Association of Great Britain.’

‘Japanese macrobiotics uses a grated poultice of the taro potato which grows in tropical, hot countries.’

‘What impressed me most about that weekend was the number of people who'd taken up macrobiotics and recovered from a variety of illnesses.’